Tuesday, January 06, 2015

They spend pretty

SHOCKING AS IT IS WHEN THE ECONOMY IS IN THE TOILET, THE DOW IS SLIDING AND BARRY O REMAINS AN ELECTED PUBLIC SERVANT AND NOT THE QUEEN OF D.C., WHAT'S EVEN MORE SHOCKING IS THAT SO MUCH MONEY WOULD BE SPENT FOR MANOREXIC BARRY TO CHEW HIS FOOD A LITTLE AND THEN PUKE IT UP TO MAINTAIN HIS TRIM AND GIRLISH FIGURE.

Take thug Nouri al-Maliki. The man Bully Boy Bush imposed on Iraq,
demanded he be prime minister is, was and always will be a thug.
Despite that reality, in 2010, when Nouri lost to Ayad Allawi, Barack
Obama demanded Nouri get a second term.

That second term pulled Iraq ever closer to the abyss as Nouri attacked
protesters, allowed his goons to rape girls and women in Iraqi jails and
prisons, bullied politicians, threatened leaders of neighboring
countries and much more.

Nouri's finally out as prime minister (Haider al-Abadi currently holds
the title) but Nouri has reportedly told his flunkies that he'll be back
in the post of prime minister in a matter of months. Currently, he
spews his crazy from the post of Vice President -- he's one of three --
the other two are Osama al-Nujaifi and, yes, Ayad Allawi.

Riven with dishonesty
and fraud, the Iraqi army mirrors the rampant corruption of the Iraqi
government in post-Saddam Iraq. These circumstances have provided
the perfect conditions for the brutal Shiite militias to thrive and
take control of the battlefield. There are perhaps hundreds of these
militias. They are trained, financed and often led by the terrorist
Iranian Quds Force. They are Iranian proxies. So the US air strikes are
aiding and abetting Iran in achieving its ultimate objective, which is
total control of Iraq.The current war raging across Iraq was as
avoidable as it was predictable. Nouri al-Maliki’s second term as prime
minister was a tragedy for the Iraqi people, for the region and for the
world. As a puppet of the Iranian mullahs, he encouraged the Iranian-led
Shiite militias and used them to enforce his merciless “iron fist”
sectarian policy of indiscriminate bombing, shelling, arbitrary arrests,
torture and mass execution of innocent Sunni civilians. Maliki utilised
the claim of fighting a war against terror to secure his grip on power
and the West fell for it.

Nouri's failures and crimes are well known. Despite that reality, Nouri attempted to rewrite history on Sunday. AFP reports:

Iraqi Vice President Nouri al-Maliki, who was widely criticized for
sectarian policies during his time as premier, said Sunday that
politicians are to blame for the country’s Sunni-Shiite strife.“There
is no problem between the Sunnis and the Shiites as communities, but
rather between us the politicians -- we think as Sunnis and Shiites, and
we are driving people toward this doom, for which we will bear
responsibility before God,” he said.Maliki himself pursued
policies that marginalized and angered members of Iraq’s Sunni Arab
minority, especially during his second term as premier.

As of now there are 2,140 American soldiers and Marines in Iraq, to grow to around 3k this spring.

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Staying with the topic of US service members in Iraq, Nikki Henderson (Nexstar Broadcasting) reports that
US Col Steve Warren has confirmed that US troops stationed at al-Assad
airbase are under regular mortar assault from the Islamic State with
Warren terming the assaults "completely ineffective." (So far, at any
rate.) Barbara Starr (CNN) adds the attacks are "raising continuing concern that
U.S. forces in Iraq can be kept safe and at least technically out of a
combat role, a separate defense official said. The Pentagon would not
say whether security measures had changed at the base."